comments interspersed > > 29) An "Unknown Country" spot (usually either a bust or someone getting > cute with the cluster) should NOT generate an alert! I sincerely doubt > anything ever alerted this way has ever been worth alerting and passing > along to the DX Info window. These should just either be overlooked > entirely or get sent to the announcement pane.
Boy are you on the spot with this one, almost all those 'Unknown Country' spots are for 'S4nta' etc. and why anyone would make a fool out of hisself spoting 'AP1FOOL' is beyond me. Just in case there really is someone who thinks these are funny, maybe make it an 'option' to process or ignore. > > 30) Speaking of the Messages tab, may we please have a context-menu > selection there to remove messages, either individually or all (just as > you can do with spots and entries to the DX Info window)? > > 31) Also speaking of the messages tab, and this is a biggie, how about > either full copy/paste capability or better still, clickable URLs (for > example, an/full VU7 logs at http://arsi.info/vu7/onlinelog.shtml). Any > string starting www. or http:// should automatically do this. Definetly, almost all software recognizes URL's FTP's and emails. > > 32) When you have a report or other dialog or menu up on-screen, why is > the UTC clock frozen? Going to test this one, never noticed it. > > Finally, I gave some thought to yesterday's suggestion number 5 (DXCC > award submission). The way it is now, it's too easy to do a "practice" > DXCC submission, say YES to that Big Question, and all of a sudden, you're > scuttled -- DX Base then assumes you've just sent a batch-o-cards off to > the League, and further assumes they've all been accepted. Here's a better > way for the DXCC submission part to work, I think: > > When you access Output-Awards-DXCC, and click compute you get the same > results you get now (please make the compute button re-pressable!). As it > stands now, at the end of the computation, you get The Question That You > Must Answer Correctly And Not Have A Second Chance At If You Make A > Mistake (Do you want to set the award field in the QSO Log to credited AND > clear the Select field for all QSOs used in this award form? Y/N). > > What I propose is that, instead, delete this choice and just bring up the > forms, etc. More often than not, you do this just to "see where you stand" > or to do a sample/test, etc. After you close the crystal report forms > (Front Sheet, QSO form, Worksheet), you should have a choice to MAKE THIS > AN ACTUAL DXCC SUBMISSION or CLOSE, with CLOSE being the default. If you > choose to make this an actual submission, all the entries you send to the > League should be in a "pending" state until you get your paperwork back > from Newington. When that happens, you should then be able to go into > AWARDS-DXCC again, bring up the pending submission and either ACCEPT ALL > or mark certain QSOs as not-accepted. Once you do that, THEN the marked > QSO records should be unmarked and the QSOs shown as credited for DXCC. > Finally, DX Base should keep track of all the submissions by date, and be > able to re-print them on-demand later on if desired. I agree wholehearteldy. Like I said yesterday, this bit me at least twice. And as I said also, I never mark cards as submitted till they have been returned. So your idea of being able to replicate a submitted form when the cards are returned makes sense if there was a 'no documentation' type rejection, you could then remove it from that file and then....and only then, tell DXB to mark those qsos/qsls as submitted and accepted. Right now I have a lot of cards ready for submission, waiting for the Aves Island group to come in and will submit after the first of the year. But I got a card the other day. Updated the report so that I could place the card in the proper sequence. But I remembered NOT to allow DXB to mark them as submitted.... Good Job Pete, some good ideas.
